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Joseph Mallord William TurnerEvery age has its Star Boy — might as well be J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English artist born in 1775. Mallord William Turner contributed to the Romantic movement and died in 1851. Get notified when Joseph Mallord William Turner's biography is complete:

Self Portrait at age 16

Fishermen at Sea

Self Portrait

Must toiling Man for ever meet disgrace, and eat his hard earn’d bread with heated face, and all his acts in dull Oblivion lay

On Labour, Creativity and Patriotism

Hannibal and his Men crossing the Alps

Dido Building Carthage

The Bass Rock

The Battle of Trafalgar

The Bass Rock

Waterside Buildings

Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight

The Fighting Téméraire

The Slave Ship

Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth

War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet

Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

I didn't know Picasso but he knew me

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Every age has its Star Boy — might as well be J.M.W. Turner

Gustave Doré

Father of Horror, Father of Fantasy

A phenom works himself to death

Anne-Louis Girodet

The quiet tragedy of the big big world

Caspar David Friedrich Joseph Mallord William Turner

Nature wins, every time

Guardian of the old ways

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The Salvator Mundi sold for $450 million.
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